Chapter 0241
Neah
The twins didn’t wake up once. Not one single time. It was a good thing, I should be happy, but a
part of me had hoped that their first night in their own room wouldn’t be so perfect. And while they
slept, Dane made up for theck of time we had been alone since their arrival.
So much so, that I could still feel the aftermath this morning.
“It’s a good thing they slept.” Raven mutters as she bounces Evrin in her arms
“I know, I’m just being…..” I sigh.
“You are being a mum.” Her dark eyes sh up to mine and I knew the question wasing.
“You’re really meeting with her?”
“Yes.”
“Are you worried?”
“Worried that I will shift and kill her.” I joke but she stares at me, rmed. “I’m joking, I’m joking. I
kept calm when ir was here yesterday. I can do it again, I think.”
“Damien said that he….”
“I know, and I’m grateful, but this is something I have to do alone. I have been fighting with my head
and my heart over this for so long.” I sigh, because I didn’t talk about it to anyone. As far as
everyone was aware, I hated Mallory. But that wasn’t true. I just didn’t trust her and her motives.
“You never said.”
“I… I feel like I’m supposed to hate her. I mean, I did. She almost killed me. She thought she had
killed me. I thought I would never see her again” I shake my head as I pull Logan from the high
chair. “I could have killed her several times, but I haven’t. She’s Damiens best friend. He sees
something in her that I don’t or maybe it''s just because he has known her for longer.” I shrug my
shoulders. “I thought I would give her this one chance. To get everything out in the open.”
“If you need anything.” Raven mutters. “You know where I am.”
I sit Logan on the floor with a bunch of toys and kiss him on the top of his head before kissing Evrin
too. "You sure you are okay to watch them?"
"Of course."
Taking a few deep breaths, I pull open the back door and head towards Mallory''s house.
Mallory flings the door open. A big smile stered on her face. Her dirty blonde hair tied up into a
half up, half down style. Dungarees covered her body with a white vest underneath. A cleaning rag
in one hand.
“You actually came.” She seems genuinely surprised and tosses the rag out of sight
I nod and she steps back to let me in. I had stayed as far away from her small house as I could until
now.
Her eyes dart behind me. “Uh, no Damien?”
“No.”
“Oh.” She sucks in her cheeks.
“I wanted toe alone.”
“Right.” She gestures to the small wooden table. A steaming teapot sits in the middle with some
cups and biscuits.
“I didn’t know what you would prefer. I have coffee too.” She gestures to the pot on the kitchen side.
It was the most nervous I had seen her. A far cry from the bitch she once was.
“Please sit.” She whispers,chewing on her bottom lip. “You can ask me anything and I promise, I will
tell you every single detail.”
I took the chair that faced the front door.
She slips quietly into the chair opposite me. Her brown eyes don’t settle on me right away. Like she
is trying to decide how to start the conversation.
“You ran away.” I mutter. “After you thought you killed me, you ran away.”
She nods. “I always promised myself I would never end up like my father, but it happened and I
knew when I stood over you as you were bleeding out, that my life was over. I had be just like
him and I hated myself.”
“It’s something that we have inmon.” She adds quietly, “Neither of us wanted to be like our
parents.”
I swallow the lump forming in my throat, trying to bury the irritation that rose from her thinking we
were the same. “You killed your father?”
“I had too.”
“After me?”
She nods her head and sucks in her cheeks. “I had be the very thing that I least wanted. At
the time, I was more bothered about that than bing a monster. Bing a Lycan was
supposed to have been a fresh start for me. To be part of a pack that wanted me, a pack that
saw my value.”
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I snort but she continues. “In reality I became more of the very thing I hated. So I hunted him down
and killed him and then ran away.”
“You watched your father kill your mother?”
“I saw more than that growing up. He raped her. He beat her.” Her tone grows darker by the second
but tears prick at the edge of her eyes. “He put cigarettes out on her. There was even one time
where she dropped a te of his food on the floor and he made her lick it up. The list goes on and
on."
The bottom of my stomach drops out. That was degrading and one thing I was never made to do.
‘Fucker.’ Nyx mutters